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The $XRP Ledger has surpassed 5 billion lifetime transactions since its launch. Popular $XRP explorer xrpscan highlighted this milestone in a recent X post: “Looks like the XRPL crossed the 5 billion all-time transactions mark.”
Hussein Zangana (Vet) in an X post highlighted this milestone, saying, “5 billion transactions were executed on the $XRP Ledger at low cost, settled in 3–4 seconds and consistently over 14 years. Looking forward to the next 5 billion.”
5 Billion transactions that were executed on the $XRP Ledger at low cost, settled in 3-4 seconds and consistently over 14 years.
Looking forward to the next 5 Billion. https://t.co/nZk776uzfj pic.twitter.com/9PRcLJ4Gx7
— Vet (@Vet_X0) August 26, 2026
The $XRP Ledger first launched in June 2012. Back in 2011, three engineers—David Schwartz, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto—began building the $XRP Ledger (XRPL). Interested in Bitcoin, they sought to create a better version that solved some of its shortcomings—a digital asset that was more sustainable and built for payments.
Now 14 years after its initial launch, the $XRP Ledger continues to run and has surpassed 5 billion transactions.
$XRP Ledger continues expansion
In a recent milestone, over 2.3 million agentic transactions have been settled on the $XRP Ledger as AI agents continue to use $XRP and RLUSD to pay for services directly on-chain.
$XRP’s utility continues to grow, particularly for institutional DeFi use cases such as tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), stablecoins, and decentralized liquidity.
The RWA (real-world asset) value on the $XRP Ledger has quadrupled since 2026, and the represented asset value is currently $4.05 billion according to rwa.xyz data.
On the $XRP Ledger, transaction fees are systematically burned, applying deflationary pressure to $XRP’s permanently capped 100 billion total supply. Since the $XRP Ledger’s inception, about 14,376,417 $XRP has been burned, representing 0.014% of the total supply. Total $XRP accounts have surpassed 8 million at 8,094,489.
U.S. spot $XRP ETFs are collectively holding $1.4 billion in $XRP (1.62% of market cap), while cumulative net inflows are currently $1.62 billion.
In recent news, Mastercard has joined as a sponsor of the $XRP Ledger Hackathon, which the $XRP Ledger Foundation is co-hosting just before the Ripple Swell event in October.
Source: <a href="https://cryptonews.net/news/altcoins/33358223/” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow noopener”>cryptonews.net
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